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Professor Wheeler did not mention that the Russians are already plodding along this track with clumsy balloons and a station high in the Caucasus. The professor's plan is better. Let the U.S. Army contribute B-29s, each carrying up toward the cosmic rays a ten-ton laboratory...
Every lesson of the war, said Doolittle, had demonstrated the primary importance of air power. "The Navy had the transport to make the invasion of Japan possible; the ground forces had the power to make it successful; and the B6-29s made it unnecessary." Alabama's Senator Hill was so struck by this statement that he had Doolittle repeat...
...commercial U.S. planes have yet tested the "over the roof" route from the U.S. to Japan. Last week, three U.S. Army B-29s did it for them, made it look ridiculously easy. The planes took off from an airfield on the island of Hokkaido, some 500 miles north of Tokyo, and headed for Washington, D.C. Heavily loaded with 10,000 gallons of gasoline apiece, they hoped to make the trip in one hop. As they swept past Kamchatka, Russian fliers did acrobatics around them. Over Fairbanks, Alaska, when the outside temperature fell to 20 below, the crews idled about...
...afternoon last week, workers on B-29s in Boeing's Seattle and Renton, Wash, plants lifted their heads at the sudden blare of loudspeakers. In short, crisp sentences, the bad news came. The U.S. Army, which had planned to cut back Boeing's B-29 production gradually, had suddenly decided to swing the big ax. Instead of 122 B-29s this month, it wanted only 50; instead of 20 next month, it wanted only...
Ironically, the company whose planes had done more than any other to bomb Japan into submission had been hit harder, dollarwise, than any other plane company by contract cancellations. Boeing already has on hand almost enough sub-assemblies for all the B-29s the Army will take in the next three months. The company had no choice but to stay closed until it can trim its force down to the small number needed to put out the few B-29s wanted (only five or six a month by April...